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Wisdom And Folly.
an appropriate uselessness to certain classes . Those intended to be TINE LADIES it fitted for their vocation , which was to D-D NOTHINGAT ALL : but persons d -stined to employment , it fitted for no employ ment ; and consequently was superlatively useless : and 1 found that nothing was m re recommenced by Queen Folly to the poorer classes of her subjects , than to give their daughters a boarding-school
education . ' Respecting the education of boys , ' said my Guide , ' . Folly recommends that they should spend most of their time with their mothers ; should be allowed to pretend to be sick when they cbcse ; should bestow their chief attentio' - on music , drawing , and spouting ; should be early introduced into pasteboard parties ' ; should be discouraged from sensible conversation ; and thoroughly
instructed in dress , foppery , and gossipping : above all , to let them have THEIR OWN WAY in every thing ; and so will a boy , though a native of Wisdom , become the " subject of Folly . ' Her Majesty , i was told , ordered public thanksgiving to be offered for mothers , whose kind indulgence had made those sons Fools , whom nature designed to be Wise . How p leasing must be the recollection , to such mothers , of having done their duty ! [ TO BE CONTINUED . ]}
Longevity.
LONGEVITY .
T" * 0 the remarkable instances of longevity given in our Historical Essay on that subject may be added the following , taken from a writer of irreproachable credit , Dr . Fuller , in his Worthies of England . It is given in a letter to the author , iu the following terms : ' There is an acquaintance of mine , and a friend of yours , who certified me of your desire of being satisfied of the truth of that
relation I made concerning the old minister in the north . It fortuned that in my journey to Scotland , ! lay at / llnwick in Northumberland , and understanding from the host of the house where I lodged , that this minister lived within three miles of that place , I took my horse after dinner , and rode thither to hear him preach , for my own satisfaction . I found him in the desk , where he read unto us some part
of the Common Player , some of the Psalms , and two chapters , without spectacles . The Bible , out of which he read the chapters , was a very small printed Bible . He went afterwards into the pulpit , where he prayed and preached unto us about an hour and half : his text was , ' Seek ye the kingdom of God , and all other things shall be added to you . ' In my poor judgment , he made an excellent sermon ; and
went clearly through without the help of any notes . After sermon , I went with him to his house , where I proposed these questions , to him : Whether the book printed concerning the change of his bairxvas , a truth ? Whether or no he had a new set of teeth come ? Whether or no his eye-si ght nc-ver failed him ? And whether in any measure he found bis strength renewed to him ? He answered me distinctly to all this ; and told me he understood the news-book reported his hair to become a dark brown again , but falsely , as he took off his cap ,
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Wisdom And Folly.
an appropriate uselessness to certain classes . Those intended to be TINE LADIES it fitted for their vocation , which was to D-D NOTHINGAT ALL : but persons d -stined to employment , it fitted for no employ ment ; and consequently was superlatively useless : and 1 found that nothing was m re recommenced by Queen Folly to the poorer classes of her subjects , than to give their daughters a boarding-school
education . ' Respecting the education of boys , ' said my Guide , ' . Folly recommends that they should spend most of their time with their mothers ; should be allowed to pretend to be sick when they cbcse ; should bestow their chief attentio' - on music , drawing , and spouting ; should be early introduced into pasteboard parties ' ; should be discouraged from sensible conversation ; and thoroughly
instructed in dress , foppery , and gossipping : above all , to let them have THEIR OWN WAY in every thing ; and so will a boy , though a native of Wisdom , become the " subject of Folly . ' Her Majesty , i was told , ordered public thanksgiving to be offered for mothers , whose kind indulgence had made those sons Fools , whom nature designed to be Wise . How p leasing must be the recollection , to such mothers , of having done their duty ! [ TO BE CONTINUED . ]}
Longevity.
LONGEVITY .
T" * 0 the remarkable instances of longevity given in our Historical Essay on that subject may be added the following , taken from a writer of irreproachable credit , Dr . Fuller , in his Worthies of England . It is given in a letter to the author , iu the following terms : ' There is an acquaintance of mine , and a friend of yours , who certified me of your desire of being satisfied of the truth of that
relation I made concerning the old minister in the north . It fortuned that in my journey to Scotland , ! lay at / llnwick in Northumberland , and understanding from the host of the house where I lodged , that this minister lived within three miles of that place , I took my horse after dinner , and rode thither to hear him preach , for my own satisfaction . I found him in the desk , where he read unto us some part
of the Common Player , some of the Psalms , and two chapters , without spectacles . The Bible , out of which he read the chapters , was a very small printed Bible . He went afterwards into the pulpit , where he prayed and preached unto us about an hour and half : his text was , ' Seek ye the kingdom of God , and all other things shall be added to you . ' In my poor judgment , he made an excellent sermon ; and
went clearly through without the help of any notes . After sermon , I went with him to his house , where I proposed these questions , to him : Whether the book printed concerning the change of his bairxvas , a truth ? Whether or no he had a new set of teeth come ? Whether or no his eye-si ght nc-ver failed him ? And whether in any measure he found bis strength renewed to him ? He answered me distinctly to all this ; and told me he understood the news-book reported his hair to become a dark brown again , but falsely , as he took off his cap ,